Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
JUDGE COOKS SUGGESTION.
FORT WORTH, Tax, June 20, 1851


FORT WORTH, TEK., June %, 1851.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
With the usual alacrity of newspaper gentle
men you have jumped to conclusion which
am advised by most reliable gentlemen hss no
foundation in facts.
] do not know the facts in the unhappy case
you allude to, but am informed that there is no
groun to assert that Grigsby was drunk or
acted from a cause produced by whisky.
Perhaps silence, until enquiry is had legally
would be wiser. Very respectfully, etc,
GUsrAvE COOK.
The above note was received from
Judge Cook yesterday, and THE GAZETTE
intends no violation of private CORE
spondence by giving 1t TO the public.
Judge Cook could have no purpose in
writing THE GAZETTE private note on
this subject, and we feel justified in
treating his communication as g public
matter.
'With the usual alacrity of some
legal gentlemen" Judge Cook "has
Jumped to the conclusion" that
newspapers, all, are prone to unconsider-
ed deductions, conclusion which has
small foundation in fact and displays
smaller gratitude for the charity and
courtesy with which some newspapers
treat some travelling speakers.
Judge Cook advises TIE GAZETTE to
silence in advance of legal inquiry, SEEM
ingly forgetful that he, himself, bases his
charge against THE GAZETTE, not on his
personal knowledge, but on what "relia-
bic gentlemen" who were not at
the killing of Hsggerty, per-
baps, said of Grigsby's con-
dition. Perhaps Judge Cook will admit
the evidence of GrigsDy himself, which
we submit, from the local columns of THE
GAZETTE yesterday morning:
About dark Grigsby awakened to conscious
ness and complained of q headache. The at
tendants said nothing about what had hap
pened. Noticing hat his clothing was torn in
several places, he asked what was the cause.
He was told that he had been picked up on the
street drunk and brought to jail He sent out
for some clothing and remarked that he would
fix up and 60 home he said that he hGd pYoat-
ised his 7rte hbat h 3rouid go and get d1unk and
now that he was all right ne would go home
sober q fool her.
From this it would appear that Grigsby
left home in the morning with the avowed
intention, to his wife, OF getting drunk;
when Grigsby was ready to leave the So
loon he called for quart of whisky; the
eye witnesses to the tragedy said he was
drunk; some Of them that he had been
heavily in the morning; DR.. Dur
niger stated that:
1t is simply alcoholic poison, or, more techni-
caily speaking, should say that he is suffering
from alcoholic delrlum. OF course l cannot
say posi- lively, and could not with out Analysing
the contents of his stomach say what poisoned
him, but from observation, and from what l
,an learn and see, would say that the poison !
was alcoholic.
Where is the alleged dumping at a
in the face of all this evil
dence, that Grigsby was drunk 'scrazed
with liquor?" Since the inference of
Judge Cooks charge against THE GA
lETTE is that lawyers do not ''jump at
should not he, as LAWYER
md judge, hesitate before ascribing by
implication to THE GAZETTE purpose to
THE GAZETTE, in common with all
isily newspapers, is called upon to treat
topics promptly, and there is no
edious examination, as in law practice,
o allow time for maturing Of opinion
md judgment; but, with all this disad-
'antage, The GAZETTE is not disposed
o treat this matter with the deliberate
Infsirness that has characterized some
peeches delivered IN Fort Worth lately.
with the usual slacrity" of THE
GAZETTE, it leaves that method
4 treating matters to those
whose education and practice are popu-
srly supposed to 1T them for calm, dis
assionate, fair and deliberate utterauce
nd deduCtion-and who should not pass
pinlons on matters concerning which
hey admit they "do not know the facts"